Click here to read our latest report “30 Years of Trends in Terrorist and Extremist Games”

Insights

  • Jun142021

    The Darker Side of Social: QAnon Instagram Comments Before the Capitol Riots

    By

    In the days and weeks following the US Capitol riots of 6 January 2021, journalists acknowledged the preparations made by…

    Read more
  • Jun142021

    QAnon and the Great Awakening: How the Deep Web Rewrites Ideologies and Beliefs

    By

    Web 2.0 technologies paved the way for the interactive web, opening a virtual topography easily accessible to countless people worldwide.…

    Read more
  • Jun112021

    Crime, Cryptocurrency, and El Salvador’s Big Bet on Bitcoin

    By

    This week, El Salvador made headlines as the first country to adopt bitcoin as a form of legal tender. Although…

    Read more
  • Jun102021

    Gab’s Gift to the Far-Right

    By

    As major social-networking platforms such as Facebook and Twitter have increased their efforts at moderation to crack down on hateful…

    Read more
  • Jun092021

    A Proprietary Solution to GIFCT’s Consolidated List Problem

    By

    In 2017, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Microsoft formed the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (“GIFCT”) “to formalize the existing…

    Read more
  • Jun072021

    The Role of Conspiratorial Narratives in the Violent Radicalisation of Right-Wing Lone Actors

    By

    Conspiracy theories have been talked about a lot recently as a key ingredient in the radicalisation of right-wing lone actor…

    Read more
  • Jun022021

    Tracking Violent Extremism Online and the Challenge of Open-Source Intelligence

    By

    Understanding online behaviours of extremist groups requires observation, analysis and often dissemination. Academic researchers, government agencies, and civil society groups…

    Read more
  • Jun012021

    Choosing Offline: Why India’s ‘Other’ Insurgencies Have not Gone Digital

    By

    While majority of the debates in and around online extremism and radicalisation in India over the recent past have revolved…

    Read more
  • May282021

    The Boogaloo Movement, Coded Communication and the Need for Context-Based Moderation

    By

    From the political fringes to the front pages, the Boogaloo Boys were thrust into the national spotlight last year. But…

    Read more
  • May252021

    Mapping the Turkestan Islamic Party’s Online Propaganda Networks

    By

    The Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP) is considered the most prominent Salafi-jihadist terrorist organisation that originates from China. While it aims…

    Read more